Obama helps break ground on black history museum

2012-02-22T16:53:45Z2012-02-22T16:53:46Z

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By BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Barack Obama says a new national black history museum will help future
generations remember the sometimes difficult, often inspirational role,
that African Americans have played in the nation's history.

Obama is speaking at the
groundbreaking for the museum, which will tell the history of black
life, art and culture. The museum will be located on the National Mall
in the capital city and is scheduled to open in 2015.

Obama says the museum "has
been a long time coming." He says it is fitting that it will be built on
the National Mall, where slaves were once traded and hundreds of
thousands of people marched for jobs and freedom.

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